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Written question asked by Oliver Letwin (Conservative) on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 December 2007. It was answered by Ben Bradshaw (Labour) on Tuesday, 15 January 2008 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Departmental Supply Estimates

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates (HC 29), if he will break down his Department's (a) main estimate and (b) winter supplementary estimate provision by subhead in (i) near cash and (ii) non-cash terms.
Answer

The Department did not seek Parliament's approval to a Winter Supplementary Estimate. Near-cash and non-cash are essentially used as departmental expenditure limit (DEL) budgetary control concepts and are not specifically identified with voted resources in Estimates. However, we have been able to break down net total resources for each section in the Part II: Subhead detail table of our main estimates as follows:

Resource DEL £000)
Main Estimates 2007-08 Near-cash Non-cash
RfRl Securing health care for those who need it
Strategic health authority and primary care trust unified budgets and central allocations¹ 80,904,795 3,537,004
Pharmaceutical services 1,059,345 0
Prescription charges -451,845 0
General ophthalmic services 379,000 0
Strategic health authorities and primary care trust grants to local authorities¹ 248,788 0
RfR2: Securing social care and child protection for those who need it and at national level, protecting, promoting and improving the nation's health
Central department 217,173 19,223
National Health Service Purchasing and Supplies Authority 28,222 765
Other services including medical, scientific and technical services, grants to voluntary bodies, research and development and information services 305,880 0
Welfare food and European Economic Area and other countries medical costs 321,500 428,492
Other personal social services 179,581 0
Medicines and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency interest on loans -1 0
AIDS support grant¹ 16,500 0
Services for people with a mental illness including service under the mental capacity act 147,525 0
Carers' grant 185,000 0
Preserved rights grant 275,248 0
National training strategy 107,859 0
Access and systems capacity grant 546,000 0
Human resources development strategy 49,750 0
Children and adolescents mental health grants 90,539 0
Delayed discharge grant 100,000 0
Assistive technology: older people 50,000 0
Prevention service pilots: older people 40,000 0
Individual budget pilots 6,000 0
¹ The near-cash and non-cash elements for some subheads do not add up to the voted provision since the Estimate also includes provision for capital grants which are part of the capital DEL.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
470 c1180-2W; 174997
Session
2007-08
Related items
Subjects
Public expenditure Department of Health
Link
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